Fundamental Algorithms - Winter 13
- Term
- Winter 13
- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Michael Bader
- Time and Place
- Mon 8-10, lecture hall MI HS 3 (first lecture on Oct 21, 8.30)
- Audience
- Computational Science and Engineering; Biomedical Computing (elective)
- Tutorials
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- Exam
- written exam at end of semester
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS (2V) / 3 ECTS
- TUMonline
- https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/lv.detail?clvnr=950121698 (lecture),
https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/wbStpModHB.detailPage?&pKnotenNr=458187 (module description)
Contents
The course will provide an overview on the analysis of fundamental algorithms. Topics will be:
- Fundamentals: Models of Computation, Complexity Measures
- Sorting: Bubble-Sort, Merge-Sort, Quick-Sort, Median-Algorithms, Lower Bounds, etc.: sorting in parallel
- Searching: Hashing, Search Tress, etc.
- Arithmetic Problems: parallel prefix computation, parallel matrix and vector operations
- Foundations of parallel algorithms and simple models of parallel computation
- Algorithms on (weighted) graphs: traversals, shortest paths, etc.
Announcements
- the lectures will start on Monday, Oct 21 (no lecture on Oct 14, due to semester opening)
Lecture Notes and Material
will be made available here throughout the lecture ...
Lecture Slides
- Introduction - Algorithms, Fibonacci example, Asymptotics (Oct 21, Oct 28)
- slides
- Sorting - InsertSort, MergeSort, QuickSort (Oct 28, Nov 4)
- slides
Worksheets
Literature
- Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein: Introduction to Algorithms; MIT Press
- Berman, Paul: Algorithms: Sequential, Parallel, and Distributed; Cengage Learning Emea 2004
- Heun: Grundlegende Algorithmen; Vieweg 2000
- Sedgewick: Algorithms; Pearson Education
- Shackleford, Computing and Algorithms; Addison Wesley Longman
- Kleinberg, Tardos: Algorithm Design; Pearson Education